AFGE applauds lawmakers for recognizing federal workers’ contributions to our country.
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To avert a government shutdown on Dec. 11, the House and Senate passed a short-term funding measure known as continuing resolution (CR), extending government funding until Dec. 18.
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AFGE condemns President Trump for his support of the pay freeze and for flip-flopping on his earlier pay raise proposal.
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AFGE is denouncing a Senate proposal to freeze wages for all federal workers next year.
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The Federal Salary Council has agreed to add Carroll county, Ill to the Davenport-Moline, Iowa-Ill., locality pay area, bumping locality pay for 355 federal employees in the area.
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At the urging of AFGE, a group of 19 senators called on the Trump administration to provide a 25% pay increase for federal workers on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis.
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Find out how AFGE is pushing for a pay adjustment in 2021.
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Federal worksites struggle to recruit and retain workers due to salaries that don't compete with surrounding employers.
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Federal employees will receive a 2.6% across-the-board pay raise in January but were denied any locality pay adjustment under an alternative pay plan President Trump.
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Federal employees in Des Moines, Iowa, and Imperial County, Calif., will begin receiving larger locality payments next year.
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Thanks to the thousands of calls AFGE members made to Congress, the House of Representatives on June 26 approved a 3.1% raise for federal employees next year, rejecting President Trump’s proposed pay freeze.
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Thanks to the hard work of our AFGE members and lobbying team, we are one step closer to a pay raise next year. The House Appropriations Committee on June 11 approved a 3.1% raise for federal employees in 2020, following in the footstep of a subcommittee which approved the raise the week before.
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As Congress has until Feb. 15 to pass long-term government funding bills, it’s not too late for us to reach out to members of Congress to request a minimum 1.9% pay raise we deserve!
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Union members are happier than workers who don’t belong to a union. As many AFGE members who used to work at a place where there is no union representation can tell you, it is so much better to have a union.
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Thanks to hard work and efforts of members like you, Congress passed and the President signed into law a funding package that prevented a government shutdown on Oct. 1 and budgeted for a 1.9% pay raise for federal employees in 2019. Congress, however, needs to pass another funding bill to provide final authorization for the pay adjustment.
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